GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023
over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o Chris McKay / Maginative : GitHub Copilot Now Comes with VS Code for Free Tim Anderson / DEVCLASS : GitHub debuts limited Copilot free tier in a crowded market TechRadar : GitHub is making its AI programming Copilot free for VS Code developers The Indian Express : GitHub hits 150 million developers, launches free Copilot tier in VS code Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS News : You Can Now Use GitHub Copilot For Free! Business Today : GitHub launches free tier for Copilot in VS Code, hits milestone of 150 million developers Aswin Ak / MarkTechPost : GitHub's AI Programming Copilot Goes Free for VS Code Developers David Ramel / Visual Studio Magazine : Compare New GitHub Copilot Free Plan for Visual Studio/VS Code to Paid Plans Rohith Bhaskar / Notebookcheck : GitHub announces a free version of Copilot for VS Code Darryl K. Taft / The New Stack : Microsoft Makes GitHub Copilot Free in VS Code Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : GitHub Copilot is now available for free in VS Code Visual Studio Code on YouTube : 🔴 A Very Special Gift from VS Code Mastodon: Steve Mookie Kong / @mookie@shumai.xyz : Maybe I'm interpreting this news incorrectly... Perhaps Copilot adoption is not taking off like the hockey stick that Microsoft thought it would. — Now it's Oprah-esque style “and you get one, and you get one, and you get one!” to boost the user numbers. — https://github.blog/... … X: Thomas Dohmke / @ashtom : Today's announcement is particularly monumental for India. With GitHub Copilot Free, India can accelerate the timeline forward to becoming the world's largest developer community. But only if we make it happen. 🇮🇳 https://github.blog/... Simon Willison / @simonw : I've been using Copilot via their “free for open source maintainers” program for a while now https://github.com/... [image] Nik / @ns123abc : LMAOOO openai is so cooked even microsoft thinks sonnet 3.5 is better model than o1 for coding😭 [image] Christina Warren / @film_girl : FYI Copilot Free works in VS Code, Xcode, Vim/Neovim, JetBrains, Visual Studio and Azure Data Studio! @kimmonismus : [video] Huuuge! GitHub Copilot Free for VS Code has arrived. As I said before: distribution is everything! Whoever achieves the best distribution of their model / application has won in the long term. Now it's all about market share! @stackoverflow : 🚀 At Stack Overflow, we always meet developers where they are. The Stack Overflow extension for @github Copilot helps developers stay productive and search for trusted technical answers without interrupting their workflow, while providing attribution back to the source. ✅ @code : Announcing GitHub Copilot Free! A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in @code No trial. No subscription. No credit card required. Learn more in our blog: https://aka.ms/... [image] @code : 🔴 A Very Special Gift from VS Code https://x.com/... Kyle Daigle / @kdaigle : 150 million developers!? For 16 years, we've believed in one vision: developers building together in one place, one home. Today, that vision is closer than ever. To celebrate, @github Copilot is now free in VS Code (yes, free). 🎉🎁. Happy holidays, coding.✨ Simon Willison / @simonw : Copilot in VS Code now has a free tier for anyone with a GitHub account Harald Kirschner / @digitarald : Unwrap your early holiday gift 🎁: 1. Open VS Code. 2. Activate Copilot Free. 3. Enjoy AI-powered coding. ⌨️ 2,000 code completions per month 💬 50 chat messages per month 🧠 Multi-model choice for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o Details and demos: https://code.visualstudio.com/ ... Santosh Yadav / @santoshyadavdev : Big news from @github : GitHub co-pilot is free for all VS Code users. Great news for developers across the globe https://github.blog/... @code : GitHub Copilot Free is here! Join us LIVE now to see the latest GitHub Copilot features in action with @jlengstorf, @cassidoo, @jherr, and @shaundai 🎁 https://www.youtube.com/... [image] Rohan Paul / @rohanpaul_ai : The Free tier of Github Copilot just launched. → Free tier users get 2,000 code completions monthly. Each suggestion counts against this limit regardless of acceptance. Chat functionality caps at 50 messages → Free tier restricts users to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. Paid Amanda Silver / @amandaksilver : Big news! GitHub Copilot FREE coming to all editors! With access to GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 models, up to 2K code completions and 50 chat request per month. No trial. No subscription. No credit card. All you need is a #GitHub account. Let's build! https://code.visualstudio.com/ ... Thomas Dohmke / @ashtom : GitHub has crossed 150 million developers 🎉 In celebration, we are making GitHub Copilot free in VS Code. That's chat and code completions. Multi-file edits. Multi-model choice. Extensions like @perplexity_ai , @StackOverflow and more. GitHub Copilot + VS Code. Fused. Free. @mattomattik : Amount of bug going live on internet just skyrocketed another 50% Yashraj Nayak / @yashrajnayak : Big news for all developers! GitHub Copilot Free is now available! With access to GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 models, up to 2K code completions and 50 chat request per month. No trial. No subscription. No credit card. All you need is a #GitHub account. Let's build ✨🚀 Satya Nadella / @satyanadella : GitHub Copilot Free for VS Code has arrived. [video] LinkedIn: Morten Rand-Hendriksen : Free @GitHub Copilot for everyone! That's a pretty big gift for the holidays. — 2000 free code completions / month — 50 free chat messages / month … Dylan Thomas : A huge day for anyone who creates or has a GitHub account, and who uses Visual Studio Code: it's free! — I've been using Copilot on side projects for a while and it's so empowering. … Ricardo Ferreira : Bold move from Microsoft offering a free tier of #Copilot with #VSCode. No trial. No subscription. No credit card required. … Forums: Hacker News : GitHub Copilot is now available for free r/FlutterDev : Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code r/mAndroidDev : Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code r/OpenAI : New GitHub Copilot free tier announced for VS Code r/aipromptprogramming : Microsoft announces a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code